Some people think big. Not Toronto lawyer Jordan Farkas. He prefers to think small, as in small claims court. As a matter of fact, he calls himself
Mr. Small Claims Court and has created a Web site where he markets himself as “the recognized authority on the Ontario Small Claims Court.” As…

A new cloud-based document assembly system aims to offer solo and smaller-firm lawyers a tool on a par with the enterprise-level system the company already markets to large firms and corporate legal departments. Called ContractExpress.com, the new Web-based software-as-a-service was launched this month by the London-based company Business Integrity, which modeled it on…

This week’s episode of our legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer explores the topic of cyberbullying and the law. Just recently, 15-year old student Phoebe Prince from South Hadley, Mass., took her own life after she was subjected to constant cyberbullying by a group of students at her school. Phoebe’s story is one of many that has…

I picked up the Boston Globe this morning and found the obituary of Dan Sharp, a friend, a lawyer and a former colleague when he and I worked together at Lawyers Weekly in the early 1990s. Seeing that his funeral was this morning,…

The law firm McDermott Will & Emery has launched Legal Crisis Strategies, a blog devoted to legal crisis management. The blog will provide advice on “preventing, managing and ending a crisis while protecting a company’s reputation and limiting its legal liability.”

Notably for those in Massachusetts, one contributor to the blog is

The Supreme Judicial Court has posted the 2010 edition of the Massachusetts Guide to Evidence. In the absence of formal rules of evidence in Mass., this is the closest the state comes to a document akin to the Federal Rules of Evidence.

The guide is compiled by a committee appointed by the SJC and…

Law.com now has my extended review of Bloomberg Law, the new legal research service that aims to muscle in on the turf now occupied by Westlaw and LexisNexis.

(Also see my post earlier this week about the Bloomberg Law biometric doohickey.)

(Note: The Law.com version is now behind a paywall. You can…

A new Web site launched today, Courtroom Insight, that provides lawyer reviews of expert witnesses, mediators, arbitrators and litigation consultants. The site is a simple-to-search directory of experts, neutrals and consultants. For anyone listed in the directory, registered users can submit ratings and reviews of their services.…

During the recent LegalTech in New York, I sat down for an interview with John Gilman, president and founder of LegalRelay.com, a new Web site that features user reviews of legal software.

Listen to the interview with LegalRelay.…

Last November, I published my review of Bloomberg Law, the recently launched legal research service from business news giant Bloomberg. One aspect of the service I did not mention in my review is the odd piece of hardware required to log-in. Whereas other legal research services rely on usernames and passwords, Bloomberg…

[I came across the following chronology among some old files. I originally compiled it in 1995 in conjunction with a magazine article I wrote.]

The fax machine is invented by a Scottish physicist. Images were sent by wire and the receiving machine recorded the images on damp electrolytic paper.

The typewriter becomes available.…

The murder of a young woman in Massachusetts raises new questions about the laws and the legal system in cases involving abusive relationships. Nineteen-year old Allison Myrick was stabbed to death, her ex-boyfriend charged with murder. Could the legal system have done more to prevent this tragedy? What can lawyers, judges and other legal professionals…